Combined sign and bulletin board.



C. H. COLEMAN.

COMBINED SIGN AND BULLETIN BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..28.'1912.

[1,044,750, Patented N0v.19,1912.

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COMBINED SIGN AND BULLETIN BOARD.

APPLIOATION FILED MAB.28. 1912.

11,044,750. Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 28, 12312.

Patented Nov. 19, thin, Serial No. 686,986.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known that l, ALAWAY H. Conn- MAN, a citizen or" the United States, residing at Shawanee, in the county of Claiborne and State 01" Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Sign and Bulletin Boards; and I do declare the following to be a full clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in combined sign and bulletin boards.

@ne object of the invention is to provide a board of this character having an improved construction and arrangement of bulletin displaying devices and means whereby the same are readily shifted to bring the various bulletins thereon into position for displaying the same.

Another object is to provide a sign board having the bulletin displaying devices therein constructed and arranged in such aanner as to permit a number of devices to be employed. in a comparatively small space, said devices containing a large nunr ber of different bulletins whereby the board is capable of displaying a considerable amount of information in a limited space.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists oi certain novel features of construction, and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings :-.F igure 1 is a front view of my improved si n and bulletin board; Fi 2 is a similar View with or the board removed, and showing the arrangement of the endless belts having thereon the bulletins to be dis played; Fig. 3 is vertical, cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 4i--i of Fig. 2; 5 is a detail vertical section through a portion of the lower end of the casing showing the manner in which the lower ends of the belt stretching springs are fastened; Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one of the bearing plates for the upper rollers of the bulletin belts; Fig. i" is a similar view of one of the lower roller bearing plates; Fig. 8 is a simi lar view or" one of the upper driving rollers ot' the belts.

' M 7 improved bulletin board comprises a casing 1 over the front of which is arranged a face plate 2 on which may be inscribed the name and business or the owner of the board or any other desired information. In the face plate 2 preferably along the center of the same are formed large end and intermediate display openings 3 and 4t between which are formed smaller openings 5, G and 7. The openings 7 are preferably double or twice the size of the openings 5 and 6, and the display openings in the face plates may be of any suitable shape but are preferably square or oblong as shown. Over the face plate 2 is arranged frame 8 having therein a glass panel 9 whereby the face plate is covered and protected.

i lrranged in the casing is a central bulletin displaying belt 10 which is disposed below the central opening a in the face plate through which the bulletins on the belt 10 are exposed or displayed. Near one end of the casing is arranged a wide bullet-in displaying belt 11, while adjacent to the opposite end of the casing is arranged a similar belt 12, said belts being arranged to travel beneath the end display openings 3 in the taco plate. Between the end belt 11 and the central belt 10 are arranged a series of narrow bolts l3, 1%, and 16. Between the end belt 12 at the opposite end of the casing and the central belt 10 are arranged a series of narrow belt-s l7, 18, 19 and 20. The belts 13 and are arranged to travel beneath dis play openings 5 in the opposite side of the face plate while the belts 16 and 17 are ar ranged to travel beneath the display 0pen ings 6 in the face plate. The belts 1d and 15 on one side of the casing and the corresponding bolts 18 and 19 in the opposite side thereof are arranged to travel beneath the double display openings 7 in the opposite side of the face plate. The belts l t and 15, and 18 and 19 contain numerals from 0 to 9 and are arranged in the manner described to permit numbers of two figures to be displayed. The belts 13 and 20 also preferably contain numbers from 0 to 12 as well as a list of the months of the year. The belts l6 and 17 preferably contain abbreviations for the names of the days of the week andv abbrevations A. hi. and P. M. and any other information which it may be desired to display. The wide belts 10 11 and 12 are divided. into a series of spaces each of which contains any information which it is desired Illtl sion for holding the same in alinement with their respective display openings in the face plate of the board.

Arranged through the belts at a point opposite the displaying openings in the face plate and having its ends suitably secured in the ends of the casing is a belt guiding and holding bar 36 over which the outer stretches of the belt pass and which holds to display. By arranging the bulletin conj taining belts in the manner described it will be seen that the information contained l thereon may be read through the openings in the face plate when the belts are adjusted to bring the desired information beneath said openings.

The various bulletin containing or disl playing belts are endless and are engaged at 1 their upper portions with operating rollers said outer stretches close up against the 21, said rollers preferably having corrugated inner sides of the face plate and the display surfaces whereby the slipping of the belts i openings therein, thus enabling the signs thereon is prevented. The rollers 21 are contained on the belts to be readily observed fixedly mounted on the inner ends of series and read through the display openings. of belt operating shafts 22 the inner ends of By means of a system of belts arranged as which are engaged with and revolubly mounted in bearing notches 23 in the upper l jherein shown and described and having edges of pairs of parallel bearing lugs 24:. j

thereon a plurality of bulletins, it will be seen that the belts may be readily adjusted The pairs of lugs 2d of each roller are disposed in planes one above the other and said to bring the desired information in position to be displayed through the display openlugs are preferably cut and struck up from ings in the face plate of the board, thus bearing plates 25 arranged on the oppoobviating the necessity of writing out this site sides of the central belt 10 and secured to the back of the casing in any suitinformation and posting the same as is usually done. able manner. By arranging the bearing From the foregoing description taken in lugs 2a in the manner described it will be connection with the accompanying drawseen that the shafts 22 on the upper belt operating rollers will be spaced apart and ings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without disposed one above the other in difierent horizontal planes. The ends of the shafts requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion 22 are provided with apertured bearing and the minor details of construction may plates 26 secured to the inner sides of the edges of the casing and the extremities of be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advanthe shafts extend through said plates and tages of the invention as claimed. are disposed in key holes 27 arranged in the Having thus described myinvention, side edges of the casing, said extremities I claim is of the shafts being squared to receive an 1. combined sign and bulletin board operating key or wrench whereby the shafts comprising a casing having on its outer side may be readily turned and the rollers 21 thus operated to shift the belts engaged therewith.

a face plate provided with displaying open- The bulletin displaying belts are engaged at their opposite ends with lower rollers 28 ings, upper roller bearing plates sehaving trunmons which are revolubly what cured to said casing, pairs of upper roller bearing lugs pro ecting from said plates,

mounted in bearing notches 29 formed in upper roller suporting and operating shafts revolubly mounted in said bearing lugs and having one of their ends propairs of bearing lugs 30. Each pair of lugs jecting through the sides of the casing,

30 is formed integral with and bent outwhereby the same may be readily turned,

wardly from the opposite side edges of upper belt winding rollers fixed on said lower bearing plates 31, said plates having their lower ends tapered or V-shaped and bent outwardly to a slight extent as shown shafts, a series of lower roller bearing plates,

bearing lugs projecting from said plates,

at 32. The tapered outwardly bent lower ends of the bearing plates 31 have formed lower belt receiving rollers revolubly mounted in said lugs, endless bulletin distherein eyes to which are attached the upper playing belts engaged with said upper and lower rollers and detachably supported and ends of a serles of coiled springs 33 the lower ends of which are located in apertures operated thereby, springs connected with said lower bearing plates and with the bot- ?A in the bottom or lower edge of the casing, said ends of the springs being secured in tom of the casing, whereby the lower bear ing plates are drawn downwardly and the the apertures 34 by staples or other suitable connecting devices 35 as clearly shown in belts engaged therewith stretched, and

means for guiding and holding the inner Fig. 5 of the drawing. When thus arranged and outer stretches of the belts, whereby the and fastened the resilient or elastic action outer stretches thereof are held in close en of the spring is exerted to pull downwardly gagenient with the face plate and between on the lower belt holding rollers 28, thus keeping the belts stretched to the proper tenthe displaying openings therein.

2. A combined sign and bulletin board comprising a casing having on its outer side a face plate provided with displaying openings, upper roller bearing plates secured in said casing, pairs of roller bearing lugs cut and struck up from said plates, upper roller supporting and operating shafts revolubly mounted in said bearing lugs and having one of their ends projecting through the sides of the casing, said projecting ends of the shafts being squared whereby they may be readily turned, upper belt winding rollers fixed on said shafts, a series of lower roller bearing plates, bearing lugs formed on said plates, lower belt receiving rollers revolubly mounted in said lugs, endless bulletin displaying belts engaged with said upper and lower rollers and detachably supported and operated thereby and springs connected with said lower bearing plates and with the bottom of the casing whereby said lower bearing plates are drawn downwardly and the belts engaged therewith stretched.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CALAVVAY H. COLEMAN.

WVitnesses M. M. HAMILTON, M. E. COLEMAN.

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